Playing with Jiggling Strings

Below is  the “**** me!” theory, better known as String Theory and quite brilliantly explained  in this clip from a TED talk given in 2005 by Dr. Brian Greene… and one worth searching for online for the whole story. The **** me part is the declaration that in order to exist you must… MUST… live in more than the three dimensions you know about. Mind boggling. In order for you and I to exist at all we must live simultaneously in so many more dimensions than the three we are familiar with, but I am getting ahead of myself.

Here is Brian Greene’s commentary:

String theory is complicated, but relax because we don’t need to understand it beyond this concept that in reality we are hyper-dimensional beings. Think about that a moment. We know three dimensions, but according to string theory we exists in many more dimensions. Some say maybe 100 different dimensions, all separated from each other.

So what?

Well, if we could somehow experience an extra dimension or two while ‘trapped’ in this three-dimensional body and build something in the other dimensions which are apparently not solid (perhaps with our imagination) it would have no choice but to show up instantaneously in our more ‘solid’ three-dimensional experience.

Here I want to add a cautionary word or two. No one really knows what another dimension is. Some, let’s say confused people to be kind, suggest that humans are transcending to the fifth dimension. To show the nonsense of that let’s consider how we actually view our world. Our eyes perceive the electro-magnetic spectrum and we see ‘things’ that way. However the human eye can only perceive 0.0035% of the EM spectrum, which is hardly anything at all. In other words, when I open my eyes there is 30,000 times as much ‘suchness’ in front of me that I cannot see. So, it is as likely that when we stretch our senses some of that suchness leaks into our perception. Just because we connect and perceive with an entity we have never seen before it does not automatically mean it is from another dimension. It could be but we would  be unlikely to see it. That means that it is far easier to connect with departed loved ones (who are still in the third dimension but hidden from us because they abandoned their vehicle.) So, when someone tells you that your departed loved ones are still with you, this is what they mean. It is just that our physical eyes can’t normally perceive that range of the spectrum.

Just some food for thought.

For decades that possibility has fascinated me and many of the practical tools I share later are based entirely on this premise. It sure is easier to imagine success, place it on an astral level, watch it show up physically and without any effort whatsoever required more than imagination.

In string theory, little loops of vibrating stringiness get detected and measured and then labeled by curious scientists as the different particles (electrons, quarks, neutrinos, etc.) and as the force-carriers of nature (photons, gluons, gravitons, etc.) that make up our human experience of matter and forces. (Cue singing scientists)

The way they do this is through their vibrations. Each string is so tiny that it appears to us (with  limited sense of sight and basic knowledge of algebra), as nothing more than a point-like particle. Also, each string can vibrate with different modes, the same way you can get different notes out of a guitar string.

If you could be shrunk down small enough you might even get to slide on these strings and play universe music with your feet.

Your every step, slide, and twist would create unique vibrations that would show up in the macro world as solid ‘things,’ suddenly appearing and disappearing. Now, that’s magical, but it is also a scientific fact. Magic is scientific at its core. Mystery is a myth. (I’m English so I like catchphrases… mystery is a myth… good one, Trev)

Each vibration mode is thought to relate to a different kind of particle. So all the strings vibrating one way look like electrons, all the strings vibrating another way look like photons, and so on. What does an electron look like? Well, to our limited senses it is like a spark of electricity. What does a photon look like? Well, to our sense of sight it looks like whatever we think we see… a tree, a car, a person.

But, as Dr. Greene pointed out, for the math to work, there has to be more than three dimensions of space-time in our solid universe. This is because our usual three-dimensional space-time doesn’t give the strings enough “room” to vibrate in all the ways they need to in order to fully express themselves as all the varieties of particles in the world. In other words, the universe is not just made of jiggling strings of energy showing up as a tree, a car, or a person, but strings jiggling hyperdimensionaly at the same time showing up as different versions of themselves. While you are reading this you also exist in many other realms. It is a proven scientific fact even if we can’t quite grasp it properly because we are so reliant on three dimensions.

Whoa!

Because the strings are so small to our sight and also the limited measuring instruments we made, the extra dimensions are thought to fold in on themselves, which creates a lot of different configurations.

Each configuration will affect the ways the strings inside them vibrate.

Since the ways that strings vibrate determine how they behave in our macroscopic world, each choice of fold (manifold) leads to a distinct universe with its own set of physics.

Yes, you read that right. Distinct universes… own set of physics… different magic… different rules… all at the same time… all experienced simultaneously by you even though you might not (in this dimension) be aware of it.

Only one manifold can give rise to the world as we know it. The infinite number of other manifolds means there is an infinite number of universes… a multiverse of all possible universes predicted by the various manifolds, with our universe as just one ‘point’ among many.

Extra Dimensions. We are hyper-dimensional beings.

String theories require extra dimensions of spacetime for their mathematical consistency. In bosonic string theory,  (Bosi loves that name) spacetime is 26-dimensional, while in super-string theory it is 10-dimensional, and in M-theory it is 11-dimensional.

Don’t worry, you need never remember any of this. The point is that according to string theory, the universe is made of jiggling strings of energy that interact in such a way they require as many as 26 dimensions to exist.  That leads to an infinite number of universes, all connected and yet somehow feeling separate to our physical one. For most people it’s the only one they are aware of.

So what? So, you and I are mostly familiar with only three dimensions. This makes us so limited in our understanding of the real universe. What would our lives be like if we were able to extend our senses just a little bit so that we could perceive one or more of these other dimensions?

So what is a dimension?

A Caterpillar Becomes a Butterfly.

Imagine a caterpillar walking on a leaf. It understands horizontal and it can perceive solidity because it is walking on a leaf. It has 6 pairs of feet and some abdominal protrusions to help it feel its way around. It understands left to right as well as back and forth. As such, it lives a mostly two-dimensional life.

Certainly, the caterpillar has no concept of height or the exhilaration and the majesty of flying. It cannot perceive that the leaf is part of a larger whole called a tree, and that there are many thousands of leaves and then countless trees called a forest. To the caterpillar, trees and forests may as well be like other dimensions. Speak to the caterpillar about multiple forests, rivers, mountains, cities and it would have you locked up as an insane being.

Along comes a butterfly. A what? The caterpillar cannot perceive of such a thing. It hovers overhead and tries to tell the caterpillar that one day it will be like the butterfly. “When your caterpillar body dies,” says the butterfly, “You will become like me…a colorful butterfly flying through space. We’ll take a trip to Mexico to see a special tree.’ The caterpillar hears nothing because the butterfly is in an additional dimension (height). Plus the caterpillar does not know what a tree is, or space, or that there are countless countries one of which is called Mexico.

The caterpillar, or what is more scientifically termed a larva, continues to stuff itself with leaves, growing plumper and longer through a series of molts in which it sheds its skin. This is fun activity for a caterpillar. It is what it does. Some humans spend all weekend sitting on a couch while watching football stuffing themselves with chips and growing plumper.

One day, the caterpillar stops eating, hangs upside down from a twig or leaf and spins itself a silky cocoon or molts into a shiny chrysalis. The human stretches out on the couch and snores the night away. Here the jocular comparison ends… at least I hope so.

First, the caterpillar digests itself, releasing enzymes to dissolve all of its tissues. You read that right. Caterpillars digest themselves in order to become a butterfly. If you were to cut open a cocoon or chrysalis at just the right time, caterpillar soup would ooze out. The soup is the remains of the caterpillar when it has fully digested itself. But the contents of the pupa are not entirely a soup. Certain highly organized groups of cells known as imaginal discs survive the digestive process. Before hatching, when a caterpillar is still developing inside its egg, it grows an imaginal disc for each of the adult body parts it will need as a mature butterfly or moth—discs for its eyes, for its wings, its legs and so on. In some species, these imaginal discs remain dormant throughout the caterpillar’s life.

Once a caterpillar has disintegrated all of its tissues except for the imaginal discs, those discs use the protein-rich soup all around them to fuel the rapid cell division required to form the wings, antennae, legs, eyes, genitals and all the other features of an adult butterfly or moth.

Like us, the caterpillar probably thinks of this as death. We know it as the chrysalis period, and we have since infant school science class considered it a beautiful process of emergence.

Out of this fluid state emerges a butterfly who immediately and instinctively knows how to use its wings. It understands completely the new dimension of flight and perhaps wonders why it wasted time fearing the death process or trying to slow down the aging of its caterpillar body for all those caterpillar years. Somehow it also knows in which direction Mexico is located.

What if the caterpillar, however, had worked on stretching its senses? What if it had stretched its ability to hear beyond the leaf and connected with the butterfly? All that time wasted on fear would have dissipated, and he would have had more fun ‘being’ a caterpillar while knowing what was to come. He might even have tried to understand what flight is like by falling off a leaf onto one below or climbing to the top of the tree to see what a forest looked like. Such curiosity would have made the caterpillar a star amongst caterpillars. Such curiosity would have transformed the caterpillar’s life experiences. Life on a single leaf would have started to feel like quicksand.

Our three-dimensional experience.

Most people, however, obsess about just the three physical ones we perceive with our limited five senses.

‘Does my bum look big in this?’ (For all men out there this question has only one possible answer and it is ‘No, dear.’)

‘Why does my back get fat on it the day after I turn forty?’ (It did)

‘Why is hair suddenly growing out of my ears and the bridge of my nose (and it is, how does that even happen)?’

Not understanding how basic earth life is, we are all pretty much obsessed with our physical, solid, world.

If I drive up the 405 freeway toward Los Angeles, I get bombarded by a hundred billboards proclaiming that I am overweight, fearful of going bald, need my teeth whitening, need help to get out of debt, and assistance for erectile dysfunction.

If I get depressed about this apparently I can find a Gentleman’s club to watch topless women at exit 85 and maybe I should take that little blue pill first, eat a chemical burger at the next fast food outlet because it comes with ‘skinny’ fries and a super-sized ‘diet’ soda. Hair transplants and dentistry are just a phone call away.

I make that drive frequently to pick up visitors who arrive at Los Angeles airport. It is my least favorite drive, but it reminds me of how much most people are trapped in a three-dimensional, solid, low-frequency life.

As an aside, billboard advertising is still considered one of the best returns on investment in this area. A medium sized billboard near Sunset Strip will set you back $100,000 for a four week stint.

Most people assume that the three-dimensional, five-sensory billboard experience is all that there is. Everyone, however, is born with far more understanding of multiple dimensions. Most quickly learn to suppress the more fun dimensional and sensory experiences they have as a youngster when they clash with the ‘reality’ of their parents and teachers. By age nine, most have been convinced that it was all just playful imagination and this solid life is all that exists. Science shows unequivocally that is incorrect. Teachers and parents please take note. Talk about this with the kids. Their responses will astonish you.

As a child, I got lucky because I had parents who were open to the idea of more dimensions and senses. My mother was even quite psychic at times. When I was aged five I started having various inter-dimensional experiences. Rather than suppress my stories I was encouraged to share them and I was never ridiculed at home.

When I met my first wife, Lyn, in 1980, she was naturally clairvoyant and clairaudient. Her family was used to her ‘adventures’ and accepted it as everyday life. Being around that environment encouraged me to enhance my own skills.

Transformation will help you achieve the same.

So what is a dimension anyway? This is what scientists tell us about them:

First dimension: that which gives it length (aka. the x-axis). A good description of a one-dimensional object is a straight line, which exists only in terms of length and has no other discernible qualities.

Second dimension: the y-axis (or height), and you get an object that becomes a 2-dimensional shape (like a square).

Third dimension: involves depth (the z-axis), and gives all objects a sense of area and a cross-section. The perfect example of this is a cube, which exists in three dimensions and has a length, width, depth, and hence volume. Humans are, therefor, three dimensional too… or at least the human body is. Beyond these three lie the seven defined dimensions which are not immediately apparent to us, but which can be still be perceived as having a direct effect on the universe and reality as we know it.

Fourth dimension: is time, which governs the properties of all known matter at any given point. Along with the three other dimensions, knowing an object’s position in time is essential to plotting its position in the universe (to us). Later we will see that time is not quite as straight or straightforward as we thought either. I question whether it is a dimension at all.

According to Superstring Theory, the fifth and sixth dimensions are where the notion of possible worlds arises. If we could see on through to the fifth dimension we would see a world slightly different from our own that would give us a means of measuring the similarity and differences between our world and other possible ones. That means we exist in more than this one world called earth.

In the sixth dimension: we would see a plane of possible worlds, where we could compare and position all the possible universes that start with the same initial conditions as this one (i.e. the Big Bang). In theory, if you could master the fifth and sixth dimension, you could travel back in time or go to different futures.

Seventh dimension: you have access to the possible worlds that start with different initial conditions. Whereas in the fifth and sixth, the initial conditions were the same and subsequent actions were different, here, everything is different from the very beginning of time.

The eighth dimension: again gives us a plane of such possible universe histories, each of which begins with different initial conditions and branches out infinitely (hence why they are called infinities).

Ninth dimension: we can compare all the possible universe histories, starting with all the different possible laws of physics and initial conditions.

In the tenth dimension: we arrive at the point in which everything possible and imaginable exists.

Keep in mind that as useful as these descriptions are they are supposition. My experiences suggest that dimensions are more than space-time in the same way that living is more than simply breathing. If each manifold is unique then so are the experiences to be had in them. Do all manifolds remain separate or can aspects of them leak into each other?

I believe the latter to be more the case. The simple truth is that no one currently alive can explain the consequences of String Theory. However, for our purposes just knowing extra dimensions exist is enough for us to create tools that allow us to experience them.

Mystics don’t fear death for a reason. They know it as a complete illusion. They know that to ‘always be them would be a complete bore ‘as Alan Watts said in an earlier clip. To be a caterpillar for eternity would be unimaginably boring when the joy of flight already exists one single dimension away.

I think string theory has such profound implications for us that it is worth taking a break here and letting the concepts sink in. Take a walk on a beach or a stroll in a park. Imagine what hyper-dimensional travel could be like… because soon it will be your experience. Your homework here is to do the right thing. Go contemplate. What dimensions are possible? What would you love to experience?
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Below you will find some excerpts from Anita Moorjani’s  book “dying to be me.” For anyone who fears death, it is an excellent read.

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